June 31 & August 3

Didn’t do too much Friday so posted this together 

Fully finished flywheel and intake CAD. Printed most pieces using PLA and TPU. Assembled Flywheel shafts. Made a basic Lidar program

All of Friday was spent finalizing the model for the Flywheel and intake including the top support plate that would hold both Flywheel motors and give the Flywheel shafts a bearing on the top as they have on the bottom. 

I also started to print most of the small pieces like the shaft collars, inserts for the bearings to make them fit the hex shaft, and spacers for the flywheel shafts. There were some struggles with printing for a bit but I figured out that flow calibration needed to be done every time which wasn’t true before but whatever works works. Since the TPU was even more iffy I only printed two rollers which I left overnight.

Monday I was able to talk with a person in the aerospace industry and visited a company nearby which gave me a better idea of what a hard tech company is looking for in applicants.

Then I started to assemble the Flywheel shafts though I was missing some 3D printed pieces so I also got everything printed today. But the sheet metal hadn’t arrived so I couldn’t do too much after this so I started to use the lidar. Thankfully the deadline was pushed to tomorrow.

I connected the lidar with the Raspberry Pi and used CodeX to help me write a basic program that would display what it sees while excluding a .25 meter range since I just had it in the chassis which was blocking it seeing 360 degrees. In the next few days I hope to integrate this with the camera and IMU to at least get the cone slalom autonomous soon.